Tutor cuffed after meeting up with undercover cop he thought was a 13-year-old girl

Jeffrey Weber of Long Island was arrested Wednesday after swapping “sexually explicit” texts and emails, from Jan. 30 to Feb. 14, with the undercover officer he thought was a teen named Rebecca, authorities said. (RTimages/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

A twisted home-school tutor thought he was meeting a 13-year-old girl for sex, but he wound up busted by a cop posing as a girl, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Jeffrey Weber of Long Island was arrested Wednesday after swapping "sexually explicit" texts and emails, from Jan. 30 to Feb. 14, with the undercover officer he thought was a teen named Rebecca, authorities said.

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Weber, 59, "discussed various sexual acts he wished to perform on the girl." He planned to meet her at a Manhattan diner and then go to her apartment for "sexual activity," prosecutors said.

According to the feds, Weber met the undercover officer on Craigslist. The cop had posted an ad Jan. 30 titled "Looking for an Older Guy."

Prosecutors say Weber responded shortly before 6 p.m. that same day, saying "I am an older, 59, white man who loves and prefers the company of a much younger woman like yourself ..." He launched into a progressively more perverted onslaught of messages over the next two weeks, according to a criminal complaint.

On Feb. 2, Weber sent the cop a text which included a picture of him in a T-shirt that read "My girlfriend is the coolest sweetest most gorgeous woman I have ever seen she is my best friend and my life," the complaint says.

"I had this shirt made up special for you today," Weber allegedly wrote.

When Weber showed up at the diner, he had a bag filled with condoms, towels, lubricant and candles, charging papers state.